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This is completely false. Read her classic, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities." She's trying to get at what makes cities work (variety and density).

This is completely false. Read her classic, "The Death and Life of Great American Cities." She's trying to get at what makes cities work (variety and density). IIRC she talks about 100 units per acre as the right balance. This is what that looks like: https://www.theurbanist.org/2017/05/04/visualizing-compatible-density/ https://www.theurbanist.org/2017/05/04/visualizing-compatibl... But yes, she was against destroying neighborhoods with freeways.

ciphol 5y ago
She lobbied to have her entire neighborhood landmarked so that nobody could build anything new there forever. Hard to get more NIMBY than that. https://www.villagepreservation.org/2016/05/05/continuing-jane-jacobs-work/ https://www.villagepreservation.org/2016/05/05/continuing-ja...